Alcott - Jos Boys

Id gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom cries impetuous Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. Then one stormy night a brooding stranger appears in her remote island home ready to take Rosamond to her word. Spellbound by the mysterious Philip Tempest Rosamond is seduced with promises of love and freedom then spirited away on Tempests sumptuous yacht. But she soon finds herself trapped in a web of intrigue cruelty and deceit. Desperate to escape she flees to Italy France and Germany from Parisian garret to mental asylum from convent to chateau as Tempest stalks every step of the fiery beauty who has become his obsession. A story of dark love and passionate obsession that was considered too sensational to be published in the authors lifetime A Long Fatal Love Chase was written for magazine serialization in 1866 two years before the publication of Little Women. Buried among Louisa May Alcotts papers for more than a century its publication is a literary landmark—a novel that is bold timeless and mesmerizing.